Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780425201336ISBN:0425201333
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. ex library. no marks on text. no spine crease. first 3 pages "crinkly". some flaring page corners. small bent cover corners and vertical crease on front cover. library marks/labels. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Date Published: 2005-03-01
ISBN-13:9780425201336ISBN:0425201333
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780802797797ISBN:0802797792
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Edition: 1st trade paperback edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: A Vision Paperback book, London
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781904132899ISBN:1904132898
Description: Near fine. An international best seller. Octavo (9 x 5.75 inches) bound in pictorial stiff card trade paperback. 368 pp. Illustrated with 17 black-and-white photographic plates. A modern fairy tale. A half-starved Chinese peasant boy is plucked from his village by loopy Mrs. Mao and told he's going to be a ballet dancer. Li Cunxin's story is a breathtaking indictment of brute Communism, told with great honesty. "--Kate Adie, GUARDIAN. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker & Company
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780802797797ISBN:0802797792
Description: New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 290 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780802797797ISBN:0802797792
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780425201336ISBN:0425201333
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker & Co
Date Published: 2008-07-22
ISBN-13:9780802797797ISBN:0802797792
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Date Published: 2005-03-30
ISBN-13:9780425201336ISBN:0425201333
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780141040226ISBN:014104022X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 432 pages. Written by the author who was raised in a desperately poor village during the height of china's cultural revolution, this book tells the story of how he came to be mao's last dancer. black and white inset (Paperback) read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2003
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 6 x 9 x 1 1/2. Signed by Author Clean tight pages, slight bumping and scuffing and smudging around edges and to cover, signed by author, clean copy, Great title for any library or collection. read more
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781740938204ISBN:1740938208
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Binding: Pre-Loaded Audio Player
Publisher: Findaway World Llc
Date Published: 2009-03-01
ISBN-13:9781742142203ISBN:1742142206
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Bolinda Audio
Date Published: 2006-09-30
ISBN-13:9781740938204ISBN:1740938208
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Binding: Preloaded Digital Audio Player
Publisher: Playaway
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781742142203ISBN:1742142206
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"3.5ish. Loved the info...but there were honestly some boring parts.
Under the crushing poverty prevailing throughout China during Mao's communist reign, Li Cunxin's life began. He was one of seven boys born to peasant parents in a commune called Quingdao. With newspaper to cover the walls, tickets to purchase water, scant amounts of food, and no plumbing, Cunxin grew up in a very loving family. At eleven years old, communist leaders came to his school and chose him to begin training as a dancer. Ballet combined with other forms of dance were being used to promote Mao's communist agenda. Cunxin was taken from his family, which brought them great honor, and was basically tortured into becoming one of the worlds best ballet dancers. The story follows Cunxin through childhood in his proverty stricken commune, through his rigorous and painful training, all of the way to America. Upon arriving on American soil, Cunxin came to find the truth he had always know, shattered. America was not the poorest country on Earth, covered with roving gun weilding mobs. In fact everyone was beyond gracious, there were freedoms he had never imagined, monetary income was staggering, and the availability of food was nearly fantastical.
The love alone that the family members had for one another during such oppression made the book worth reading. Historically and politically the information was made easy to read through Cunxin's fabulous narration. Though by the end I admit skimming at parts."
"i give it the stars for the story and not for the writing. li cunxin's life is completely unbelievable in how far he is able to journey in a lifetime. his childhood begins in qingdao, china eating dried yams and living a life of absolute poverty until at the age of 11 he leaves his parents for the beijing dance academy as part of the cultural revolution. years of rigorous and painful dance training end up bringing him to houston, texas, where he's first exposed to the west. he defects from china and this book tells the tales of emotion he has moving from a communist mindset to one of artistic freedom. my favorite parts are his relationships with friends and teachers...and most of all, the connection to his dia, niang and 6 other brothers. it's a beautiful story."
"Autobiography. In the first third of the book, Li describes the near-starvation poverty as the sixth son of a peasant couple in Shandung (sp?) province in China during the 1960's. He is then, at age 11, chosen by a team from Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy, based on his measurements and an offhand suggestion by a teacher, to be trained as a ballet dancer. The second third of the book describes this training, most of which took place during the Cultural Revolution. The last (and least interesting) third describes his life in, and defection to, America and then Australia. Bolinda Audio Books (Melbourne). Read by Paul English."
"J'ai été un peu sceptique au début du livre. L'enfance misérable d'un petit chinois au sein d'une famille nombreuse qui se débattait pour sa survie et son unité. De trop bons sentiments servis par des mots trop simples. Ca sentait le mélo facile. Et puis, un jour, par un hasard total, notre gentil pouilleux est choisi très aléatoirement pour partir à Beijing étudier le ballet. Le quoi ? Le ballet. Lui n'en a jamais entendu parler. On est aussi étonné que lui de la tournure inattendue que prend sa vie promise aux champs et à la misère. A partir de là, on se laisse embarquer dans la lecture. Et presque comme lui on observe avec curiosité tout ce que la vie lui a secrètement réservé. La nourriture a profusion, la solitude, le travail acharné, les rencontres qui changent sa vie.... J'ai aimé la sincérité du ton. Ce qui peut paraitre de la naïveté n'est autre que le discours d'un petit paysan amené vers un destin exceptionnel un peu à son insu. Bref, une fois rentrée dans cette autobiographie je l'ai dévorée. J'ai aimé suivre son questionnement allant de l'adhésion totale à la propagande maoïste à la critique contre son endoctrinement. Sa découverte de l'Amérique où il va méfiant et persuadé d'y trouver une misère immense est savoureuse. Certes tout ça reste d'une gentillesse consensuelle tout le long, mais je me suis quand même laissée émouvoir aux larmes (oui, bon, j'ai la larme facile c'est vrai) par la vie de Li. Un livre étonnant par sa simplicité, un témoignage passionnant d'un jeune membre du parti maoïste, et un destin aussi extraordinaire qu'improbable."
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